Borås Municipality () is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
in
Västra Götaland County
Västra Götaland County () is a county or '' län'' on the western coast of Sweden.
The county is the second most populous of Sweden's counties and it comprises 49 municipalities (''kommuner''). Its population of 1,616,000 amounts to 17% of S ...
in western
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
. Its seat is located in the
city
A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ...
of
Borås
Borås ( , , ) is a city (officially, a locality) and the seat of Borås Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 114,556 inhabitants in 2024. It is widely known for being a textile city, home to worldwide brands and companie ...
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In 1971 the ''City of Borås'' was made a municipality (''kommun'') when the unitary type of local government unit was introduced in Sweden. Three years later many surrounding municipalities were amalgamated with Borås. In 1995 the western part was separated, creating
Bollebygd Municipality.
In the 1990s the municipal assembly (''
kommunfullmäktige'') decided to use the name ″Borås stad″ or ″City of Borås″ whenever possible, for the whole municipality, including rural areas. This decision is purely nominal and has no effect on the legal status of the municipality.
Localities
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Aplared
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Äspered
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Borås
Borås ( , , ) is a city (officially, a locality) and the seat of Borås Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 114,556 inhabitants in 2024. It is widely known for being a textile city, home to worldwide brands and companie ...
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Borgstena
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Bosnäs
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Bredared
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Dalsjöfors
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Dannike
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Fristad
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Frufällan
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GÃ¥nghester
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Hedared
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Kinnarumma
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MÃ¥lsryd
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RÃ¥ngedala
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Rydboholm
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Sandared
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Sandhult
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Seglora
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Sjömarken
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Tosseryd
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Viskafors
Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Borås Municipality's electoral districts in the
2022 Swedish general election
General elections were held in Sweden on 11 September 2022 to elect the 349 members of the Riksdag who in turn elected the Prime Minister of Sweden. Under the constitution, regional and municipal elections were also held on the same day. The pr ...
sourced from
SVT's election platform, in turn taken from
SCB official statistics.
In total there were 113,940 residents, including 83,786 Swedish citizens of voting age.
[ 46.2% voted for the left coalition and 52.1% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
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Twin towns – sister cities
Borås is twinned with:Espelkamp
Espelkamp () is a town in the Minden-Lübbecke district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
Espelkamp is situated approximately 10 kilometers north of Lübbecke and 20 kilometers north-west of Minden.
The is located on the site of a ...
, Germany
* Mikkeli, Finland
* Molde, Norway
* Vejle, Denmark
References
External links
Borås Municipality
– Official English site
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Borås
Municipalities of Västra Götaland County